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this is the message to each of us today. i don't care what you've done up to this point in your life. i don't care if you've had chicken parents, attended chicken school, even if you had chicken teachers, chicken assignments and even some of you have some chicken jobs with chicken managers arpped -- and supervisors. don't think chicken thoughts and don't dream chicken dreams. think like an eagle. ok? all right. all right. [applause] wasted time and potential we will never be able to recover the time wasted. i repeat, the greatest tragedy in life is wasted time and wasted potential. even at my age i wake up every day with this notion of discovery, wanting to know more and to do more. that's what this is about. don't sit on it because if you sit on it, it will go away from you because god will say hey, you ain't using it, i'll give it to somebody else. ok? the wealthiest place on earth really is the cemetery because it's are where all the hopes, dreams, goals, music, arts, inventions, are lost forever. the hardest jobs, listen
this is the message to each of us today. i don't care what you've done up to this point in your life. i don't care if you've had chicken parents, attended chicken school, even if you had chicken teachers, chicken assignments and even some of you have some chicken jobs with chicken managers arpped -- and supervisors. don't think chicken thoughts and don't dream chicken dreams. think like an eagle. ok? all right. all right. [applause] wasted time and potential we will never be able to recover the...
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but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who's joined us. let's welcome supervisor camp ovements and dr. veronica hunnicutt is here also the so with that we're at the point where we really want to get to the real meat of this thing today, our key note speaker. i mentioned earlier we've had a strong partnership with bring the exhibition we have now with the kinsey collection through the kinsey foundation and no stronger partner could we have had than the san francisco public library under the leadership of luis herrera. luis has been -- let's give luis a -- [applause] luis has been a real up toer in standing with us in doing what's necks -- necessary to make this happen. stuart shaw, ann carroll is back there. everett, the people in the production department who have helped us. you will see all the hard work they have provideded when you go over to check this exhibit. so without further ado i would like to have luis introduce our keynote speaker. >> thank you, al. what a glorious day it is and happy black history month. i'm honored to introdu
but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who's joined us. let's welcome supervisor camp ovements and dr. veronica hunnicutt is here also the so with that we're at the point where we really want to get to the real meat of this thing today, our key note speaker. i mentioned earlier we've had a strong partnership with bring the exhibition we have now with the kinsey collection through the kinsey foundation and no stronger partner could we have had than the san francisco public...
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the regulations around us are very strict and have been. i think folks know that and just like every other health-care provider that gets federal funds, we are reimbursed for services provided. for every papps mayor every breast exam, every birth control visit -- for every pat smear every breast exam, every birth control and an ms it, it's important. that is why we are seeing such an outpouring in this country of support. one in five women in this country has been to planned parenthood in their lifetime. we are hearing from the mall across the country. women who had their first breast exam and sound utterly they had a lump and were able to get treatment. women who got their first birth control at a time when they may not have had health insurance coverage. maybe their job did not pay them enough to get care elsewhere. we are very proud of that. we take the health care of women in this country very seriously. >> i want to delve then into the political side of this. notwithstanding some of the pro- choice republicans on the hill, particularly
the regulations around us are very strict and have been. i think folks know that and just like every other health-care provider that gets federal funds, we are reimbursed for services provided. for every papps mayor every breast exam, every birth control visit -- for every pat smear every breast exam, every birth control and an ms it, it's important. that is why we are seeing such an outpouring in this country of support. one in five women in this country has been to planned parenthood in their...
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many central used to be one of the schools. [applause] it is important for us to remember where we have been so we know where we need to go. this used to be a place where the problems on the streets followed kids into the classrooms. it was hard for young people to learn the dream was out of reach for too many. there was a culture of failure that brought everybody down. turnaround these schools is not easy. many people use to argue that all they need is more money but money will not do the job alone. we have to reform how things are done. it is not easy to turn around and expectation of failure and to make that an expectation of failure. there may saying he did this is not possible. they say that turning around good schools was throwing your money away. they say we should focus on places that have more breaks and more going for them. , i am nott i think willing to give up on any challenge and america. i am not willing to give on any schools. i did not accept failure here in america. [applause] >> i believe the status quo is not
many central used to be one of the schools. [applause] it is important for us to remember where we have been so we know where we need to go. this used to be a place where the problems on the streets followed kids into the classrooms. it was hard for young people to learn the dream was out of reach for too many. there was a culture of failure that brought everybody down. turnaround these schools is not easy. many people use to argue that all they need is more money but money will not do the job...
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us forward. i often think what we have seen with the internet which have not seen with the automobile industry we saw chrysler go bankrupt and the reason to believe that the three did not see the innovation of the computer of the automobile industry we would buy cars less than $3,000.200 miles per gallon but unfortunately that has not occurred but think goodness it has with the internet industry. one thing when you think about america not many americans realize the intellectual property in this country is so important to be protected. it is the only area where the united states has a trade surplus. it is incumbent for us to realize to have the wherewithal to do the innovation as long as we protect it. one good example is the ipad and the new motorola product, shows the confluence of the internet, the tv and the computer that all of these will bring exciting new products and over a period of time we don't know where this will go. the computer becomes the tv, the tv doubles as a computer and wirele
us forward. i often think what we have seen with the internet which have not seen with the automobile industry we saw chrysler go bankrupt and the reason to believe that the three did not see the innovation of the computer of the automobile industry we would buy cars less than $3,000.200 miles per gallon but unfortunately that has not occurred but think goodness it has with the internet industry. one thing when you think about america not many americans realize the intellectual property in this...
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kron 4 shows us where those crews take this note. >>j.r.stone: and the like tahoe area, and in the middle of the park. he could see all the snow beside me and in my home you might be asking what you doing in a park? obviously you're going to have a lot of snow in the park. there is some which no one like tahoe, they had to put it on dump trucks that you see in this video, those dumb taldump trucks to come her. it's like a launcelot snow. reporting in the lake tahoe area, j. r. stone kron 4 news. >>pam: all the snow is leading to mass of water runoff. jeff pierce shows with state officials are doing about the extra water. >>jeff: it's the rare occasion that the reservoirs have had to release waters. water has been released from the reservoirs by as much as 100 cubic feet. in this year at the releases to make room for the anticipated snow melts. luckily they're making room for another late-season rain storm. in the east bay, kron 4 news. >>pam: you could check the weather any time including satellite tracker and storm damage video. it'
kron 4 shows us where those crews take this note. >>j.r.stone: and the like tahoe area, and in the middle of the park. he could see all the snow beside me and in my home you might be asking what you doing in a park? obviously you're going to have a lot of snow in the park. there is some which no one like tahoe, they had to put it on dump trucks that you see in this video, those dumb taldump trucks to come her. it's like a launcelot snow. reporting in the lake tahoe area, j. r. stone kron...
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it home with us we'll be back after this break. >>brian: of a weather system for tonight in the next couple of days it would make for cloudy skies this weekend. even the chance for rain. it all the rain to the north of the bay area. that is where the showers are falling for this evening. at the weather system is slowly going to make its way into the bay area. it's going to take time for this rain to get here. that is which future cast is showing. there's the rain to the north of ukiah and it really does not progress to the south. this storm front has stalled out over the north coast. it slowly begins to slide to the south by 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. perhaps some light showers showing up around sonoma county and just off shore san francisco. the rain or expecting for the weekend is really more of a sunday of and then saturday. here sunday going into the early morning hours. midnight saturday and sunday morning the rain to the north of the golden gate. light rain for the entire bay area into sunday morning. as he could see it's pretty spo
it home with us we'll be back after this break. >>brian: of a weather system for tonight in the next couple of days it would make for cloudy skies this weekend. even the chance for rain. it all the rain to the north of the bay area. that is where the showers are falling for this evening. at the weather system is slowly going to make its way into the bay area. it's going to take time for this rain to get here. that is which future cast is showing. there's the rain to the north of ukiah and...
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so anytime you can use the factory piece it's better than using the re-pops. we're going to cut all this off to take it off. we got new whisk rubber, so we don't have to worry about being nice with these. what we need to do is take this piece of metal off, chrome trim, 'cause we're gonna reuse it, so we want to be careful with it. right now what we gotta do is clean all this up and get it ready to reinstall. and the rest of this is bye-bye. the rest of that is junk. anything i can help you with? just watch your fingers and just... give it a light little scrub? you're just taking all the dirt, any kind of paints or anything that's on 'em. just kind of wipe 'em off. then we're gonna put a little wax on top of it after you're done. now what i have to do is, have to align this all up. now, these have little notches in 'em. see the notch? mm-hmm. so you know that's how far you go back? that's how far you're gonna go, take it up to the bore. you have these little line-up holes that'll tell ya-- like right here, right there-- that helps tell you where it goes. now we
so anytime you can use the factory piece it's better than using the re-pops. we're going to cut all this off to take it off. we got new whisk rubber, so we don't have to worry about being nice with these. what we need to do is take this piece of metal off, chrome trim, 'cause we're gonna reuse it, so we want to be careful with it. right now what we gotta do is clean all this up and get it ready to reinstall. and the rest of this is bye-bye. the rest of that is junk. anything i can help you...
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that's not good for us. we don't want that. we don't want extremely high mandatory standard benefits package as. supply and trying to make is different states have different problems. we give different ideas, and 1 million not believe it, some politicians obviously who act like you all look for constituents more than we do, we love our constituents as much as you will do, and we want to do -- we want to do right for them, but we will do what we can afford and can sustain. medicaid is the second-biggest item in my budget after education which has been of 63% of the state budget on education and medicaid is the next biggest thing to recover medicaid's growth before i was governor has grown to 16.5% a year and we were cutting our community colleges and cutting our universities because of the money was having to be diverted to medicate. in my seven years as governor we've reduced medicaid expenditures to go to 4%. we have not changed eligibility with one exception. the people we used to give pharmaceuticals through the medicaid pro
that's not good for us. we don't want that. we don't want extremely high mandatory standard benefits package as. supply and trying to make is different states have different problems. we give different ideas, and 1 million not believe it, some politicians obviously who act like you all look for constituents more than we do, we love our constituents as much as you will do, and we want to do -- we want to do right for them, but we will do what we can afford and can sustain. medicaid is the...
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that's it for us at 6:00. thanks for joining us. we'll be back at 11:00. good night. captioned by closed captioning services inc. my second diagnosis-- i was told to go home, retire, and enjoy the time i had left. to say it was a shock is just a complete understatement. i mean, i don't think there are words. she had put up a really good fight, but it was her time. you... don't have a choice of getting breast cancer. i had no choice. i wanted to do something bigger than myself. that 3-day gave me that opportunity. and i can actually do something to help. i think it's a very bold thing to do. 60 miles in 3 days-- i can do that. i'm sure if it was 100 miles, we'd still walk it. it was a big statement for me of... (voice breaks) i'm alive. we can do this. we can do this. we can rid the world of this terrible disease... so that no mother... granddaughter... sister... daughter... mother... go through what my wife had to go through. this is more than just three days. this is a lifetime. (man) register today for the... and receive $25 off your registration fee. because everyo
that's it for us at 6:00. thanks for joining us. we'll be back at 11:00. good night. captioned by closed captioning services inc. my second diagnosis-- i was told to go home, retire, and enjoy the time i had left. to say it was a shock is just a complete understatement. i mean, i don't think there are words. she had put up a really good fight, but it was her time. you... don't have a choice of getting breast cancer. i had no choice. i wanted to do something bigger than myself. that 3-day gave...
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thanks for joining us. you in part by boy's hope girl's hope, which helps children at risk to realize their potential by providing value centered family-like homes and quality education. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome, i'm patricia o'reilly and i'm delighted you could join us for another edition of "out of ireland." coming up on this week's program ♪ ♪ >> irish for brit ireland and u.s. dancing up a storm in orlando, florida for the first u.s. irish organized by enjoy travel. but first for a round up of the week's news from ireland, over to rte, ireland's national broadcasting service. >> the leaders of the main political parties have clashed in the first three way debate in the election campaign. the debate broadcast focused on the banking crisis. cutbacks in government spending and the irish language. while michael martin said it would be 10 times worse if labour party had prevailed. for what would turn out to be a r robust fact based no holds barred. the language of
thanks for joining us. you in part by boy's hope girl's hope, which helps children at risk to realize their potential by providing value centered family-like homes and quality education. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome, i'm patricia o'reilly and i'm delighted you could join us for another edition of "out of ireland." coming up on this week's program ♪ ♪ >> irish for brit ireland and u.s. dancing up a storm in orlando, florida for the...
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we need to go back to them and watch us cutting spending. obama wants to spend and we want to spend less. it may be small numbers that independents don't spend all day watching c-span. they don't focus on politics all day. they run their lives. they look up from time to time and they don't necessarily say one party of the -- or the other as their permanent allies or enemies. in 2006, 30% of the country looked up and did not like the occupation of iraq and afghanistan and did not understand what was going on. it seemed to be expensive in lives and money. four years later, the same independence looked up and said i never signed on to the tsunami massing -- massive spending increases. then they voted 60/44 the republicans. one needs to be cognizant of what the independents are focused on and what they care about and they are focused on voting against spending. if the republicans hold them, they win in 2012 and 2014 and we can begin to turn the ship around. you can have a different president at a different senate. that is the focus. >> let's fas
we need to go back to them and watch us cutting spending. obama wants to spend and we want to spend less. it may be small numbers that independents don't spend all day watching c-span. they don't focus on politics all day. they run their lives. they look up from time to time and they don't necessarily say one party of the -- or the other as their permanent allies or enemies. in 2006, 30% of the country looked up and did not like the occupation of iraq and afghanistan and did not understand what...
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kim mulvihill shows us their secret to staying young and healthy. >>> reporter: this woman used to weigh 140 pounds. now she's at 115. the man trimmed his 38" waist to 30." they have something in common. they decided to start weightlifting more than 20 years ago. today, they defy stereotypes for senior citizens. >> i just made 70 january 8th. >> reporter: after a second divorce, she became a single mother two of with no job and was freed. that's when she decided getting healthy was a place to start. >> when i turned to the side my stomach came out further than my chest. and i thought, i have to do something. >> reporter: today she is a personal trainer motivational speaker and is working on a book. >> i have never felt better. i'm stronger. i'm happier. i am just, uhm, passionate about what i do more than i was even 10 years ago. >> reporter: bob gail is 73. he says his life changed when he started building muscle by weightlifting. >> weight dropped, i lost about 35 pounds. and my endurance -- i'm living now. living a good life because i feel healthy. >> reporter: studies show the commit
kim mulvihill shows us their secret to staying young and healthy. >>> reporter: this woman used to weigh 140 pounds. now she's at 115. the man trimmed his 38" waist to 30." they have something in common. they decided to start weightlifting more than 20 years ago. today, they defy stereotypes for senior citizens. >> i just made 70 january 8th. >> reporter: after a second divorce, she became a single mother two of with no job and was freed. that's when she decided...
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as the design engineer of manassas can you put it into simple words for us how does it work. where it's simple we monitor through satellites that fly over places and question the signals from the satellites we analyze the signal is was less attacked how long it was the way to the i honest fair which then lets us forecast the extent of its disturbance the correlation is very clear unfortunately we can't yet predict when more or fewer shocks will occur and what their magnitude will be the second question concerns precursors of such follow up problems as tsunamis the relevant systems are more or less worked out it all started during the peak of the cold war at that time scientists needed to convince politicians that the united rescue system was needed as a result of the usa in the soviet union later joined by canada and france and made an international rescue system an outer space post my son sucked this system a save more than thirty thousand lives the first instance being in one thousand eighty two when the soviet union one of the unspoken competition to be the first to launch
as the design engineer of manassas can you put it into simple words for us how does it work. where it's simple we monitor through satellites that fly over places and question the signals from the satellites we analyze the signal is was less attacked how long it was the way to the i honest fair which then lets us forecast the extent of its disturbance the correlation is very clear unfortunately we can't yet predict when more or fewer shocks will occur and what their magnitude will be the second...
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they are providing us the equipment on loan. they are permitting us to ride. we have now crossed that barrier. >> i will talk about the economic situation. the unemployment rate is still high. it is attributed to a number of factors including the stabilization of the financial system, monetary policy end inventory rebuilding. economic growth slowed in the spring and summer of last year including european debt issues. we have seen increases evidence that a self sustaining recovery may be taking hold. i make special note of consumer spending. we also had good gains in the u.s. manufacturing output. my projection is that we will see stronger economic growth. the federal report says rejection speed -- projections. it is higher than projections made in november. despite the improvement in the growth of output, it is only improving slowly. we do see some grounds for optimism. there are declines in the new unemployment claims. the signal wall for unemployment to come down to desired levels -- it has still taken a while for unemployment to come down to desired levels.
they are providing us the equipment on loan. they are permitting us to ride. we have now crossed that barrier. >> i will talk about the economic situation. the unemployment rate is still high. it is attributed to a number of factors including the stabilization of the financial system, monetary policy end inventory rebuilding. economic growth slowed in the spring and summer of last year including european debt issues. we have seen increases evidence that a self sustaining recovery may be...
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join us at 6:00. that does it for us here at abc-7. hope to see you at 6:00. captioned by closed captioning services inc.
join us at 6:00. that does it for us here at abc-7. hope to see you at 6:00. captioned by closed captioning services inc.
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(nats: "you brok use?") >>> next, it's a confusing 911 call for this operator. >> i just broke into a house and the owners came home. >> you, you, you broke into a house? >> why this burglar wanted to rat himself out. >>> tonight a closer look at those private invest tore who are running up the price of oil. that and more on cbs news. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> i'm dana king. here is what we're working on for the 6:00 news. the damage always on so does damage control, the growing number of criminal cases that have been tossed out as investigations swirl around the san francisco police department. >>> well in, again, in mill valley you just don't call it that. >> call it what you will, the store is a landmark, but maybe not for long. the colorful history and uncertain future of the pleasure principle. we'll have that and much more at 6:00. julia. >>> all right dane, a thanks so much. >>> imagine coming home and finding an intruder in your home but he has already called 911 for you. >> broke into a house and the owne
(nats: "you brok use?") >>> next, it's a confusing 911 call for this operator. >> i just broke into a house and the owners came home. >> you, you, you broke into a house? >> why this burglar wanted to rat himself out. >>> tonight a closer look at those private invest tore who are running up the price of oil. that and more on cbs news. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> i'm dana king. here is what we're working on for the 6:00 news. the damage always on so...
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that will bring us moderate to heavy precipitation. that on top of the 18 inches oaf rain that has accumulated. in mill valley, coupe phi know with 14 inches. and it has rained 20 days out of 25 in the month of march. 9 1/2 inches of rain. we'll pinpoint the areas that have two inches away. thanks, roberta. >>> japan's nuclear crisis has taken a turn for the worse. there's likely a breech in the plant. they discovered the problem when two workers behind this tarp suffered severe radiation burns after stepping in water outside of the reactor. the water had radiation levels 10,000 times higher normal. >> this creates the possibility of a much larger release of radiation into the environment. >> following that discovery, the government expanded the zone to 12 to 19 miles. >>> in syria, witnesses say security forces shot and killed at least 15 people during protests against the government. the protests started in a rural town have now spread to several cities in a country where protests have not been tolerated in the past. and video shows
that will bring us moderate to heavy precipitation. that on top of the 18 inches oaf rain that has accumulated. in mill valley, coupe phi know with 14 inches. and it has rained 20 days out of 25 in the month of march. 9 1/2 inches of rain. we'll pinpoint the areas that have two inches away. thanks, roberta. >>> japan's nuclear crisis has taken a turn for the worse. there's likely a breech in the plant. they discovered the problem when two workers behind this tarp suffered severe...
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they just arrested us. they're not willing to have an ho honest dialogue about the concerns of the campus, about operational excellence. >> their support base is growing down below. we made a call to campus officials, we haven't heard from them yet. we do expect to soon. we do know that police are planning a strategy to get them down. they say that they're looking for forces to come in. i was here last night, and they had officers from alameda koufrnty sheriff's department and from san francisco. so they may be calling the forces in to try to get them down safely. we don't have a timetable for that. we'll be here and give you an update at 6:00. reporting live in berkeley, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> we'll keep an eye on things, thank you. >>> a three-day hearing into the san bruno gas line explosion wrapped up in washington, d.c., today with a loud and clear message. changes must be made. the chair woman of the hearings says the accident highlighted a pattern of recurring safety problems. and peo
they just arrested us. they're not willing to have an ho honest dialogue about the concerns of the campus, about operational excellence. >> their support base is growing down below. we made a call to campus officials, we haven't heard from them yet. we do expect to soon. we do know that police are planning a strategy to get them down. they say that they're looking for forces to come in. i was here last night, and they had officers from alameda koufrnty sheriff's department and from san...
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e-mail them to us at kgotv tv.com. >> this rain has been relentless. let's get a check on the rain totals so far with leigh glaser. >> leigh: the storm that gave us the rain this morning has moved to the east. checking on live doppler 7hd. a few cells remaining. you can see a little bit of moisture heading over towards dixon, and in the east bay, looking at this cell over the 205, and that is thinning out. rainfall totals quite impressive, especially south. santa cruz, over two inches of rain. north bay, st. helena, over an inch. close to an inch in mill valley. over an inch in oakland and lesser amounts livermore valley and san jose. more rain is in our accuweather forecast for tomorrow. i promise after that you're really going to like the forecast. >> alan: thank you very much, leigh. there's more to see in marin county, a rockslide is forcing evacuations from three homes. tomas roman is in mill valley. >> reporter: we're here on miller avenue in mill valley. the slide happened up on the hill on it -- ethel avenue. the mud was stopped before it reach
e-mail them to us at kgotv tv.com. >> this rain has been relentless. let's get a check on the rain totals so far with leigh glaser. >> leigh: the storm that gave us the rain this morning has moved to the east. checking on live doppler 7hd. a few cells remaining. you can see a little bit of moisture heading over towards dixon, and in the east bay, looking at this cell over the 205, and that is thinning out. rainfall totals quite impressive, especially south. santa cruz, over two...
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lately and by us i don't mean people who have six zeros in their annual salary. our nation is still reeling from the financial meltdown that sucked williams of dollars out of our households and put working class americans out on the street jobless and homeless and what did our faithful government do to help those that were conned the people who claim to represent us handed over trillions of dollars in corporate welfare to the very banks who created the mess and its tiny pittance to homeowners who were conned into adjustable rate and exploding mortgages by predatory lenders on the day of the bailout vote in congress the house of representatives switchboard was shut down because so many people were trying to call their representatives to thank them to vote no inter about giving more money to the banks toure's but their voices were ignored and the biggest heist in the history of the world was without a glitch during the last year of the bush administration there are two wars still raging in our life the representatives have flat out rejected calls by the american pe
lately and by us i don't mean people who have six zeros in their annual salary. our nation is still reeling from the financial meltdown that sucked williams of dollars out of our households and put working class americans out on the street jobless and homeless and what did our faithful government do to help those that were conned the people who claim to represent us handed over trillions of dollars in corporate welfare to the very banks who created the mess and its tiny pittance to homeowners...
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it is up to us. we have responsibilities. the third thing i would like to talk about before we get into the political side of politics is what is it going on around the world. we certainly watched with amazement what was going on in egypt the activities and the young people and the capacity to use twitter and facebook and gather crowds and stand up and protest the reasons that they were not very happy with and with a reason not being happy with, and we stand in a chair that and feared what was going to begin to happen in libya. we even gave a strong encouragement as a government in libya. gave the people that are beginning to live to fight. egypt was more peaceful. libya was cheating at each other. civil war. we give encouragement to the protesters. then we did nothing. we have done nothing. how unconscionable to give people the impression that we would provide some support and then stand back and let what is happening happened there. let me get back to the larger point. watching what is happening in egypt. we see issues like
it is up to us. we have responsibilities. the third thing i would like to talk about before we get into the political side of politics is what is it going on around the world. we certainly watched with amazement what was going on in egypt the activities and the young people and the capacity to use twitter and facebook and gather crowds and stand up and protest the reasons that they were not very happy with and with a reason not being happy with, and we stand in a chair that and feared what was...